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Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 07:15 AM

    Was Wright right?

    This column supports the book written by Dahr Jamail, "Beyond the Green Zone," in which he describes the atrocities committed by the U.S. and the terror the Iraqis are exposed to on a daily basis. Women and children and older people are their principle targets according to this non-embedded war correspondent.

    Americans are becoming terrorists. Will this behaviour be implemented in the states when these hired killers return home?

    The enlisted men are captives of their government and must do the Pentagon's bidding. This is what happened in Fallujah.

    Read it. Jamail is a legitimate non-embedded war correspondent whose home is in Alaska.

    Americans are not Americans anymore. We have been converted into a barbaric nation who take killing very lightly indeed.

    Thanks, George Bush.

    We will never win because we have already lost.

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